Re: Texinfo 7.2.90 build with mingw.org's MinGW

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:38:28PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Is there some easy way for me to try without ExtUtils::Embed, by
> setting some variable before running the configure script, or perhaps
> by hacking the configure script in some simple way?

The patch below should apply to the texinfo-7.2.90 pretest.  "configure"
and "make" ran smoothly for me with this patch.

$ diff -u tta/configure.orig tta/configure
--- tta/configure.orig  2026-01-13 20:58:01.557767685 +0000
+++ tta/configure       2026-01-13 20:58:54.199734563 +0000
@@ -5884,11 +5884,14 @@
 
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking ExtUtils::Embed" >&5
 printf %s "checking ExtUtils::Embed... " >&6; }
-if $PERL -e "use 5.008_001; use ExtUtils::Embed;" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-  extutils_embed='yes'
-else
-  extutils_embed='no'
-fi
+# if $PERL -e "use 5.008_001; use ExtUtils::Embed;" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+#   extutils_embed='yes'
+# else
+#   extutils_embed='no'
+# fi
+
+extutils_embed='no'
+
 { printf "%s\n" "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $extutils_embed" >&5
 printf "%s\n" "$extutils_embed" >&6; }